"Beautiful botanical images and captivating
rainforest sounds emerge from every direction,
the evolution from caterpillar to butterfly has
bever been so brilliantly staged" /Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio/
Watch a butterfly move. The fluttering of its wings looks as if a paintbrush were painting on the air; but it also looks like a dance. This delightful dance sometimes lasts but a day. It all happens between dawn and sunset.
And now look: there is a landscape, in it there are an egg, a larva, a caterpillar, a butterfly, a swarm of butterflies. They are beautiful, colourful, they flitter in the wind, they whirr in your ear. They are ballerinas painting on air with their great wings.
Onstage there is a butterfly house made of gauze and colorful images projected onto a white carpet and two big wings enwrapping all the space. Two dancers move, play, paint in the air; they are light and invite the audience to discover a fashinating process, the slow metamorphosis which transforms a chrysalis into a butterfly.
artistic direction: Francesco Gandi, Davide Venturini
choreography: Anna Balducci, Piero Leccese
dance: for two performers
digital design: Elsa Mersi
sound design: Spartaco Cortesi
computer engineering: Rossano Monti
costumes: Loretta Mugnai
props: Gregory Petitqueux, Valerio Calonego, Livia Cortesi
voice over: Caterina Poggesi, Charlotte Zerbey, Claudie Decultis, Ana Sala Montoro
collaboration on script: Stefania Zampiga
a coproduction with: Teatro Metastasio Stabile della Toscana
rainforest sounds emerge from every direction,
the evolution from caterpillar to butterfly has
bever been so brilliantly staged" /Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio/
Watch a butterfly move. The fluttering of its wings looks as if a paintbrush were painting on the air; but it also looks like a dance. This delightful dance sometimes lasts but a day. It all happens between dawn and sunset.
And now look: there is a landscape, in it there are an egg, a larva, a caterpillar, a butterfly, a swarm of butterflies. They are beautiful, colourful, they flitter in the wind, they whirr in your ear. They are ballerinas painting on air with their great wings.
Onstage there is a butterfly house made of gauze and colorful images projected onto a white carpet and two big wings enwrapping all the space. Two dancers move, play, paint in the air; they are light and invite the audience to discover a fashinating process, the slow metamorphosis which transforms a chrysalis into a butterfly.
artistic direction: Francesco Gandi, Davide Venturini
choreography: Anna Balducci, Piero Leccese
dance: for two performers
digital design: Elsa Mersi
sound design: Spartaco Cortesi
computer engineering: Rossano Monti
costumes: Loretta Mugnai
props: Gregory Petitqueux, Valerio Calonego, Livia Cortesi
voice over: Caterina Poggesi, Charlotte Zerbey, Claudie Decultis, Ana Sala Montoro
collaboration on script: Stefania Zampiga
a coproduction with: Teatro Metastasio Stabile della Toscana
